May 2024 Energy Forecast: A Time For Indulging
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At a glance
May's energy opens a four-month energy portal; one with lighter energy (overall) and a message to be careful to not over—or under—indulge.
This episode also covers:
what does your soul want you to indulge in?;
what about your Inner Child, or Higher Self —what do they ask you to indulge in?;
taking an inventory of your Four Bodies (physical, mental, emotional and spiritual) and where you may be overindulging or underindulging;
the collective need to reset our nervous system;
the importance of self-soothing and self-care;
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Let’s dive into the energy forecast and predictions for May 2024 in this podcast summary
We are opening a mini four-month energy portal in May that will run until August. The Indulge oracle card was turned for both months, which creates this sort of bookend and it draws my attention to that time frame, not just the months itself. I first spoke about this mini energy portal in the 2024 Annual Collective Energy Forecast, which invites us to embrace a time for indulgence.
Don’t overindulge
Now we may need to be careful not to overindulge. Overall, the energy of the next four months is much lighter and is asking us to look at indulgence, whether we're overindulging or even under-indulging.
There will be numerous opportunities within this little energy portal between May and August to feel good. We have an opportunity to work with this energy so that we can focus on the things that bring our soul alive.
Overindulgence right now may look like overdoing the stuff that we know is not good for us.
What are you over-indulging in?
Are we overindulging in avoidance and distraction?
Are we overindulging in stress, in worry, in busyness?
Or are we overindulging in not quite the right quality of pleasure?
We can derive pleasure and indulgence at a short term level by getting ourselves a treat or eating too much sugar or whatever relatively simple things, right? But if we're doing that all day, every day then it really does become an overindulgence. That's not necessarily helping us in the long run. Also throughout May, and of course, through to August, we may find that this energy and this theme that's being brought to us is also asking us to indulge in our own desires.
Aim for soul-nourishment
Rather than over or under indulging, this energy portal asks us to focus on deep soul nourishment and indulgence. It may mean indulging your inner child. It may mean that you're considering what might feel like an indulgence physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
So right throughout the next four months, we're being asked to reconnect with our true selves or aspects of our true self. Like I said, inner child, soul, spirit, higher self, whatever it might be.
The desire of our soul, the experiences our soul has come here to experience and what our soul is desiring to share or create. All of these things are also important. So, we may need to listen to our Inner Child, Higher Self and Soul.
What your reaction to indulgence and pleasure may tell you
And as we're reconnecting to our self, to these aspects of ourselves, be really curious about what this term indulgence even brings up.
Another word here is pleasure. And again, that can be pleasure physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It can be pleasure in a number of different ways. Even these words, pleasure and indulgence may start to conjure up some connotations for you, whether in a positive or negative sense and that by itself is worth exploring. So get really curious.
Are you getting queasy when I use the word indulge or use the word pleasure? And if you are, ask yourself, why? What is the intuitive data that's available in that? Equally, you might hear those words and get very excited and already know exactly what you want to do to maximise this level of indulgence and pleasure.
Given everything that is going on in our world right now, it may feel strange to think about these topics. What spirit is bringing here is not an indulgence and pleasure with a blindness to what is occurring. Instead in recognising that when we are able, those of us who are able to bring ourselves into these higher frequencies, which nourishment and joy and bliss and pleasure, they all are at a much higher vibration than destruction and sadness and depression. So for those of us who can be in that frequency, more often than not, we are playing a role.
So, even if the idea of increasing your capacity for joy and pleasure feels icky, that it feels like it's not fair while there are people in the world having a harder time—I agree with you! It doesn't feel fair. And yet choosing to deny yourself that same pleasure or indulgence is not going to make it any better or easier for anybody else.
“Choosing to deny yourself that same pleasure or indulgence is not going to make it any better or easier for anybody else.”
What is energy portal has to do with our Annual theme
Let’s put this into context for the theme for 2024 (Self Love). I mentioned the 2024 Annual Collective Energy Forecast, where I deep-dive into the annual theme, which is really around self-love. So in that way, we have a period of four months where the energy is trying to move us to gently nudge us in a direction of self love, self care, deep nourishment and pleasure and joy and bliss.
The theme of May right through to August will be encouraging us to reflect, and to consider some beliefs or preconceived notions that we might have around this idea of pleasure and joy and an abundance of delight and that in itself is part of what this energy is trying to bring for us. But what it also brings, as I said, is an opportunity for us to really think about where we may be overindulging.
Links to the 2024 Q2 Guided Collective Energy Forecast
Something else to bring into this mix is that this four month energy portal (May to August) runs alongside our quarterly focus (April to July)—these two forecasts must work together.
In the 2024 Q2 Guided Collective Energy Forecast, we explored the theme and energy of Life Lessons. Weaving that into this mini energy portal, there's a sense we may individually sense of a change in direction, or receive some sort of clarity in our life lessons, or soul lessons, and how they're giving way to our purpose.
The overarching annual theme of Self Love, together with a quarterly theme around graduating from Life Lessons and into Life Purpose, coinciding with this mini cycle around Indulging… we may get a sense now of how these come together.
Be prepared to learn a much deeper, impactful lesson around indulgence in self-care.
This energy cycle will bring:
collective repairing of the (individual and collective) nervous systems
questions about how we self-soothe ourselves. What is the balm? What is the way in which we can comfort and restore and certainly nourish ourselves?
an opportunity to ask (and answer) “What would love do?”
focus on self-love and self-care
an emphasis on where you’ve been over-indulging or under-indulging
